Twitter’s “Nearby” Service In Testing with Selected Accounts

See what others around you are tweeting with Nearby If you interact with a lot of close friends on Twitter , you might start noticing some friends are closer to you than you think. The social network is, via TechCrunch , testing out a brand new service called Nearby, which would roll out tweets by users in the same area, whether you follow them or not. It’s experimental thus far because, as you can imagine, many users either don’t want to use their location attached to their tweets or they don’t want to be bothered with who’s tweeting what just because they happen to be in a geographically similar location